MPR News Update, PM Edition for Dec. 9, 2016

Friday, December 9, 2016

Good afternoon! It's easy, today, to think of the space programs as normal, but not so long ago, piercing the heavens atop a repurposed nuclear bomb delivery system was the thrilling, risky stuff of science fiction. When human exploration of space was just beginning astronauts, scientists and engineers used the most advanced - and destructive - weapons systems around to push the boundaries of where humans could go. | Science | Forecast